About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Get to Know the Team

Come join the Consumer Experience (CX) Engineering team - we work on a diverse set of consumer problems spanning across core experiences that power the UX navigation and transaction funnels, search and discovery of content and services, user lifecycle covering user growth, engagement and loyalty and the critical platform mission of mobile application developer experience. We are on an exciting mission to connect consumers to Grab's marketplace by allowing them to discover and engage with Grab's services and partners.

Get to Know the Role 

We are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join the CX Team. You will ensure high-quality deliverables, spanning across multiple key services powering end-to-end user journeys going from the login screen to the home and activity pages of the Grab app. These services are one of the top entry points for Grab services, with millions of visitors every day across 8 countries in total. You will report to the Senior Software Engineering Manager, and you will be based fully on-site in our Jakarta office.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

• Design and write with the Go language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Grab's range of services
• Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design/architectures geared toward scale and performance
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning, and optimization
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications
• Work with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services and performing root cause analysis investigations
• Design, build, analyze, and fix large-scale systems
• Pro-actively debug and solve production incidents during your on-call shift
• Participate in interview loops to help Grab continue hiring top industry talent
• Provide technical guidance, mentorship, and knowledge sharing to peers.

What Essential Skills You Will Need

• A degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Technology or related fields
• 8+ years of experience in software engineering in a distributed systems environment
• Experience with Golang, including an understanding of its core syntax and semantics, familiarity with its standard library, its concurrency primitives, and experience developing and optimizing Golang applications.
• Proficiency in maintaining operational excellence and site reliability, including familiarity with monitoring system performance, ensuring system health, and managing service capacity planning.
• Computer Science fundamentals in algorithms and data structures
• Familiarity with running large-scale web services; understanding of systems internals and networking is an added value
• Experience developing distributed systems with high throughput and scalability, including an understanding of streaming systems and queuing models and their respective integration into these systems.
• You have a clear articulation, with strong analytical abilities, proven design expertise, and a strategic approach to evaluating and enhancing systems for growth, optimization, and long-term stability.
• You can be a good coder in any language (C++, C, Java, Scala, Rust, Haskell, OCaml, Erlang, Python, Ruby, PHP, Node.JS, C#), but willing to work on Golang
• Expert knowledge in databases, including relational databases such as MySQL and NoSQL databases like AWS DynamoDB, Scylla, and others, accompanied by a distinct understanding of multiple design decision possible effects. Architect highly scalable solutions while keeping cost-effectiveness in mind.
• Experience mentoring junior developers, providing guidance on coding standards, and promoting a collaborative learning environment within the team.
• Demonstrate a sense of product thinking, being able to align technical strategies with product goals, and understanding how development decisions can directly impact end-users.

About our Technology Stack:

• Our main services is built in Golang, using Redis, MySQL, DynamoDB, Kafka, and Elasticsearch for data storage. These services are orchestrated using Kubernetes and run on the AWS cloud infrastructure, equipped with auto-scaling abilities.
• Our mobile app platform coverage includes native iOS, and Android, written in Swift/Kotlin, RxJava, and Flutter. Our previously developed front-end is built on Rails, HTML5, CSS, React, and JavaScript.
• We use GitLab for our code repository and we follow the basic Continuous Delivery tenets utilising a host of tools to support our release pipeline and code quality. These include GitLab CI, DataDog, Code Climate, and Jenkins.

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

• We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
• With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
• Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
• We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
• Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.